HOMICIDE SQUAD

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 270, 9 July 1932, Page 7

HOMICIDE SQUAD

DRAMATIC TALE OF SUSPENSE | AND FAST j ACTION. GLIMPSES OF UNDERWORLD. Homicide Squad," the Universal drama which opens at the Grand Theatre on Saturday is a screen play which is filled with suspense and fast action, and which tells a highly dramatic story in. a thoroughly effective manner. The pieture deals with the conflict between police and gangsters in a great city, and gives a remarkably mteresting exposition of the methods of the modern police force. A gangster leader kills the son of a police officer when the young man worms his way into the gang by false pretenses, and is about to expose the | criminals to his superior ofiBcers. This brings about an intensive warfare which is crammed with excitement, and involves a police "cleanup" of the entire underworld, in which the authorities are aided by a quickwitted young girl. Leo Carrillo, noted stage actor, delivers an unusually fine characterisation as the Italian-born gangster leader, and makes of Louie Grenado a most human figure. Mary Brian is altogether pleasing as the girl in the story, and Noah Beery makes Detective Captain Buckley, head of the homicide squad, a veritable tower of strength. Othei's who do good work ' in important roles are Russell Glea- 1 son, George Brent, J. Carroll Naish and Walter Percival. All in all, the cast of the pieture is exceptional. The locale of the story is full of interest, and gives a series of intimate views of the haunts of the underworld. Speakeasies, cheap dance halls and dives supply a setting that is rich in "local colour." There are also many interesting scenes laid in police headquarters, where the homiude squad carries on its work of comaatting the criminal element.

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